Mike: "I'm so sick of movies". If I had to watch and review the dozens and dozens of crappy movies that Mike and Jay do each year (not even counting the shit from their Best of the Worst series), I'd be burned out as well.
They like a shit load of things. I feel like they are even being generous when they say they were "entertained" by general schlock movies. Having standards isn't the same as being above enjoyment. The fool laughs at everything, even though he himself is the joke.
>It's impossible to shut down all the police robots, they are only accesible physically, so they can't be hacked remotely >Hugh Jackman does literally that
You guys know what's crazy? In The Dark Knight, they changed The League of Shadows from Arabians to Asians to avoid offending people, while in Iron Man, they changed Iron Man's captors from Asians to Arabians to avoid offending people (or be more modern I guess). Just something I noticed.
@@rawrdino7046 Well I'm sure they could just say that it was a far east branch of the League of Shadows or something. But just looking at any other interpretation of Ras Al Ghul other than Nolan's should give you a hint.
Just wanna add that Ras Al Ghul was the Arabic name for the star Algol, also known as Beta Persei, so with a name like that, him being Arabic checks out
Let’s change any and everything about a film to cringingly appease randos who complain about things no one in the right mind would complain about because we desperately want everyone’s money equally and will do absolutely anything no matter how disgraceful to appear “progressive” to pseudo-intellectuals under 30 because we’re so backward I mean forward thinking and we want to be cool too so you give us your money
Chappie was like a big-budget student project. It was a lot emotional/angst driven themes that werent totally thought out interspersed with artisticly gratuitous violence and dark bits. Also the strong impression the actors are fresh from a theatre background.
I just rewatched Chappie on Netflix for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I still don't quite know what to make of it. It has so much going for it- a lot of the elements work, the idea is fascinating and it is pretty entertaining. I did have fun watching it, and I'll probably watch it again within the next year... but it doesn't really come together at any point. It's a situation where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
It's a good bad movie. I'll watch it like every 2 years or when a particular group of friends shows up. There's nothing in it particularly worth analyzing or studying, but it's got enough dumb charm to keep it from being boring or annoying. And it's great to pick apart all the dumb moments with a crowd.
I remember when this movie came out. It was around then that I was getting really excited about Mike and Jay finally fixing Mr Plinketts VCR, what a disappointment every single thing in the world turned out being
I think this movie's point was that it was a rebuttal of that whole "AI is going to destroy the world" schtick you see in every other AI movie, it essentially goes "well, humans are already doing a pretty bang up job with that". The ending scene is just saying that no, humans aren't this magnificent unreproducible miracles, let's just get robo-bodies and let's all be robocop. So it's basically pro-AI and pro-transhumanism.
Awesome: a nihilistic, misanthropic movie for the whole family :) Also, mankind is terrible and should all be robots...but as long as you've still got money you don't mind giving a little to the humans who made this garbage movie, right?
The whole thing with Jackman & the Ed209 thing never made sense to me. Why would you think a policeforce wants a giant robot with gatling guns and rocket launchers? Doesn't the police usually work in a city, with houses and streets and lots of crowded spaces? Why isn't he selling this thing to the military which would probably want a walking battle-tank?
Because a Tank: a fast, relatively maneuverable low profile vehicle with a low center of gravity is better suited to combat than a slow cumbersome building sized machine that can't take cover behind most terrain and has the potential to topple over? If walkers were the best way to do it we would be using them right now. They just look way cool.
They did try. They called it the Star Wars prequels. Here's some actual program code from it: //scene:two people talking on a couch //shot //reverse shot //shot //reverse shot //shot //reverse shot //end scene
Say what you will about Neill Blomkamp, at least he's honest when he feels he made a bad film. He literally said "I feel like I fucked it up" in regards to Elysium. How many directors or writers are ever that honest? Lookin' at you Lucas, Shymalan, Bay, Boll, Paul W.S. Anderson, Roberto Orci....
+Dann Benn Without context I'll just assume he meant it didn't rake in enough cocaine money or something. I don't think Bay has had self-aware moment in the last 20 years.
For a guy who said he didn't want to make a District 9 sequel because he wanted to work on new original ideas I find it odd that he just decided to basically make the same movie again twice, Elysium then Chappie, and then go on to work on an existing sci-fi property... I can't wait to see Sharlto Copley play a down and out Xenomorph living in the slums of South Africa dealing with the social injustice of being a slave for the white Colonial Marines who are mean to him because of class inequalities and stuff :)
its all the same universe. tetravaal was the company that was researching alien technology from district 9, the ai in chappie is used to build elysium.
@@somerandominternetweirdo9962 which TOTALLY excuses all three movies feeling like worse derivatives of the same plot and effects with no meaningful improvements and many problems added each repitition
Schwiggity, your abilities know no bounds... and I commend your smarts, but I'm too old and too tired to be learning about new-fangled things like adblock, homosexual haircuts and snapchat. I just wish CZcams would use half of their tiny minds sometimes...
How is a browser extension "MIT level computing knowledge"? Maybe google search is enough to watch porn for you. But I assure you, you can use it to find wonderful things. Until then, get used to having ads all over the place.
The design of Chappie immediately made me think of Apple Seed. This whole movie seems like an amalgamation of Robo Cop, Short Circuit and the works of Shirow Masamune. Odd because the Ghost in the Shell live action movie was recently announced.
Patlabor was what I landed on but he definitely looks like the archetypical 80s mecha. edit: and yeah Huge Ackman would be the last person I'd put in a robot movie at this point.
Tony Midyett her* first of all, and it's pronounced roughly like "Dee Ahnt-voord", not "Die Aunt Ward". If you already knew this and are just trying to make a joke, I r8 your b8 0/10.
I didn't think the film was all that bad, to be honest. I like Neill Blomkamp's visual style, I like how he usually has a pretty dystopian look at the near-future. Chappie is nowhere near as good as District 9, and neither was Elysium. I think Blomkamp's strength is establishing a world that feels grounded and intriguing, and thereby saying: "What would my story look like if this was the world's current state?", as his films are always very ambitious, but with Elysium and now Chappie, the potential of the story was never fully reached. I would advice him teaming up with a new and better writer, as that would make his films way better.
NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! GOD NO. the Sham Hammer has cracked out utter crap since Signs, which was over 10 years ago. Neil has some great potential and just needs creative restraint. Blomkamp has to abide by the canon of the first two Alien films and by what the studio says. Sometimes I think most of the RLM fanbase just likes to bash everything to be just like Jay and Mike
+Michael Martinez Now that's just harsh, Shyamalan at least made 3 mostly well-received movie's and a divisive flick before going off the deep end (and a few months after this came out had a minor comeback with The Visit). Blomkamp only made one great film, then a greatly polarizing flick, and now a dookie.
The whole time i watched this video I 100% thought they were talking about the other Hugh Jackman robot movie Real Steel. Smh no wonder I was so confused
I find it hard to believe, by the end of GITS (1995), that you see the Puppet Master as just a robot, I can see like Hal and even Chappie and stuff because of the presentation being perceived that way but yeah if you want an A.I. that you can fully empathize with then watch Ghost in the Shell
I think the most interesting thing about the film the idea of an AI which imprints on undesirable people. The consciousness transfer, the human controlled robot, the ridiculous climax of the film and the bad taste ending unravelled and devalued that interesting idea totally.
This movie is your typical sci fi action movie, but it's entertaining and funny in parts. Even though it has some faults, it's still funny and entertaining.
It's very interesting seeing this in 2023 where now Mike is the cyinical dork and Jay is more optimistic but in this it's like the polar opposite. Even the hack frauds can change
I think Jay and Mike are reaching that age when they realize all movies are just rehashed crap that's been done before. The good news is in ten years they'll stop giving a shit and enjoy them anyway.
Makes me feel bad for all the people really excited about this movie, I haven't seen District 9 or Elysium but it's sad to hear that a director who's done one great film has failed to live up to it with his next two projects. :/
Well, I'm a big District 9 fan. I can't speak for everyone else, but Elysium already smashed my hopes for Neil Blomkamp. And Elysium seemed like it might be good, like it might at least be a decent action movie with some fun space stuff. But when I saw the trailer for Chappie, I absolutely had no hopes for the movie already. No.
I'm really hoping he redeems himself with the new Alien film. It'd be awesome to see that happen too, it's a bigger risk and bigger challenge to take on that property. Honestly if it isn't good, he'll just be done. I'm still optimistic, but this is his last chance. Also, District 9 is a modern classic and is one of the best movies of recent times. If he redeems himself with Alien, District 10 might happen!
pretorious700 The weird thing is that they originally wanted to cast Eminem as the lead in Elysium, but Eminem insisted that the movie be set in an even more run down future Detroit so thy turned him down. Having seen how Elysium turned out, putting Eminem in it and using Detroit as the background with all the connotations of late 20th century American labor/industrial failure it brings with it would probably have fixed the film.
Meh, District 9 wasn't "great". It's much better than the average blockbuster, which is why it's so hyped. (Like Nolan's Batman movies. Yeah, I said it.) But not great.
16:30 this scene is actually set up much better than they tell it. in an earlier scene when chappie and the gang robbed some guys you see chappie stealing a lot of playstation 3's. he then is hooking them all up to utilize the gpus for neural network calculations to find out about consciousness. later he says "i figured out consciousness" which leads him to later transfer the consciousness of the person into a robot. of course thats not how it would work....even if on those whimsical gpus he would have made a neural network that acts like consciousness he would have to replicate the entire neural network of the brain perfectly. This is one of the rare occasions i disagree with you guys. I only reluctantly watched this movie but in the end I gave mental standing ovations. especially how effortlessly blomkamp creates this world, like its really there and he just has to film it. Lots of the AI stuff in this movie actually makes sense. what didnt make sense is the character of sigourney weaver, but i guess it adds to the fairy tale part of the story, just as jackman does. the CGI on chappie was contraire to their opinion outstanding. this was one of the first movies that used ACES colorspace which leads to a much more realistic integration of cgi and reality. I consider this movie a high tech anti fairy tale
Chappie 'found out about consciousness' by googling it so it all makes sense that a robot that doesn't know how knives work can swap a human consciousness into a robot body and the CGI looked like zero-gravity dogshit, get off Neil's cock
Fuckin' love Chappie. Fuckin' love Blomkamp movies (except Elysium). Fuckin' love Half in the Bag because they have their own opinions and I can respect them. My only concern is that people let reviews cloud their judgement before forming their own opinion. Make up your own minds, friends, don't let people tell you what is good and what is shit.
Paul K The thing is that though opinions are subjective, the technicalities those are based on are very much objective. This movie technically failed to develop any of the characters besides Chappie, and most people realize that. You can have a personal opinion that disagrees with the norm, but realize it's not going to be popular because you're getting over technical failures that most people realize.
I would argue that the protagonists learned how not to raise a kid. While the character development is lacking, this movie stars a South African rap duo raising a child-like robot directed by a guy who makes scifi action movies with sick visuals. In this context, I find it very easy to forgive the poor character development. I think more people should think outside the established rules of narrative storytelling, lighten up a bit, and learn a thing or two about the context of the film. Who directed it? What kinds of movies do they like making? Why did these make these stylistic choices? I feel like those are all good questions to ask yourself, before assuming what you're seeing is objectively wrong. If it doesn't vibe with your preference, you're not wrong. But, that doesn't mean the director was wrong for making the movie they wanted to make.
If you are or know some one who was manipulated by their parents as a child, you know exactly the social commentary the movie is going for. I liked the message and the tone so much that I didn't realize how often I was saying "that's stupid, that makes no sense".
BrutalFuzzball Wow dude, do you put THAT much of yourself into youtube arguments that you return months later to try and goad someone into continuing the argument?
I considered rewatching Chappie to see if it's a grower but I realized that would be like making someone take a shit in my yard at gun point and hoping an apple tree grows out of it in the off chance that a: there's a seed there in the first place and b: it successfully fertilizes.
When Hugh Jackman puts the gun to whats his faces head and everyone in the office is like wtf, but then he just says im joking and no one does anything i shut it off and had a hearty chuckle, that was unintentional comedy.
I personally really enjoyed CHAPPiE. I'm really sick of sci-fi movies trying to be completely realistic and down to earth and so having all the crazy ghost in the machine stuff was really fun to me. I liked the characters and how cartoony a lot of the stuff was. I think any movie where a human soul is put in a flash drive isn't trying to be 100% serious. It did remind me more of the high concept sci-fi films of the 90s which happens to be my favorite genre.
That doesn't change the fact that I enjoy what it is. I have no way of telling what the intentions were but I don't think they'd recruit Die Antwoord and have a scene of Dion asking his Omnibot for a redbull if they were going for stark realism. Not to mention everything is really stylized and brightly colored. If they were going for stark realism then they failed, but if they were going for a live action Otomo anime then they succeeded.
Chappie extracts human souls on flash drives using a stack of playstations for fucks sake. I REALLY don't think they were going for the gritty realism they did with District 9.
Chappie was a potentially great film that needed script and casting changes to turn despicable main characters more sympathetic. The rest is brilliant, lost in the muddle. Watch it and see what you think.
Chappie was fine until the moment the "soul transfer" plot happened. A machine learning about mortality would've been a much better story, even if it's overdone.
The concept of this movie seemed like it had a ton of potential, I was really looking forward to exploring the idea of ai and rogue ai and stuff, what I got was some thugs teach a robot to be a thug, which was just stupid. The entire premise of the movie made me depressed, not because it was a depressing movie, but because there is so much wasted potential.
Kevin Bacon's overnight creation of code for invisibility while binging on twinkies in Hollow Man was not as laughably bad as Dev Patel's Red Bull fueled creation of sentient AI in Chappie. This film was tonally all over the place. It's a shame, too. I genuinely enjoyed District 9.
I really wish Mike and Jay could enjoy video games, because there's so many games that tell AMAZING stories that are, in many ways, way better than movies now. One of my favorites, that deals with similar themes to this, in a much better, and horrifying way, is SOMA. I'd love to hear their opinion on that game.
I hate how hollywood keeps falsely advertising their movies. The trailer for Chappie tells a completely different and more interesting story than what the movie it was advertising.
I wonder if I should pull a Blomkamp and upload my concept art for my Starman remake (starring Gosling reprising his emotion-impaired alien character from Drive) to Instagram.
I often agree with what these guys say, but I liked CHAPPiE. I think the blend of the naive baby with extreme violence works well because of the juxtaposition. It got a bit overblown, and was probably drawing on Robocop too much, but the world and the characters were effective.
The problem with RLM in this review is that they couldn't watch the movie without comparing it to other stuff. It has nothing to do with Robocop aside from having a robot cop.
I thought it was good; I read it as being more about Chappie growing up and becoming his own person. I'm also a sucker for "can robots be alive" stories and Neill Blomkamp's visual style, though
consiousness in this movie is like teleportation in real life. You can't teleport someone but you can clone them at the exit and incinerate the original.
I thought it was weird that the South African rap group Die Antwoord were the stars of this movie. It seemed like Neil wanted to make a movie with them so bad to show off their talents, that he even included their art style (the dicks everywhere are part of that) in the movie. It added an interesting aspect to the movie in my opinion, and surprisingly they were decent enough actors compared to a lot of people who are in their first film.
They seem like performance artists more than musicians, the performance just so happens to be music most of the time. In other words they are likely really fucking annoying people, but get pure ketamine.
Mike is the only man I’ve ever seen to consistently laugh without smiling
Aaaaaahhh
I definitely laughed at this movie without smiling to be fair.
@@corndogrequiem1728 make that 2 I suppose lol
Jay has sure perfected his hair and beard over the years.
@@caseyoberle7341 good for him
It took him 12 years to grow.
Like a ken doll
Little known fact: Chappie's AI kernel actually took *twelve years* to make.
12 years to make? I didn't know that!
twelve years a slave robot
Polymorphable I, Robot: Unchained
Starring Will Smith
That coincidental! Because BOYHOOD took twelve years to make also and I FUCKING LOVE BOYHOOD!
GoldGreninja Really? *12 years?!* It must be the best joke in the history of Mankind!!
Mike: "I'm so sick of movies".
If I had to watch and review the dozens and dozens of crappy movies that Mike and Jay do each year (not even counting the shit from their Best of the Worst series), I'd be burned out as well.
Even the best job sucks if you have to do it indefinitely without a break.
what? Yes, but they don't seem to like anything. They are above enjoyment, apparently. That's for weak-minded folks...
They like a shit load of things.
I feel like they are even being generous when they say they were "entertained" by general schlock movies.
Having standards isn't the same as being above enjoyment.
The fool laughs at everything, even though he himself is the joke.
They review like what, 20 movies a year? 40 hours, maybe?
And yet we watch them watching it
Chappie used the internet to learn everything from human hisory, but didn't have time to learn what knives do...
He had to study dank memes.
They make you go sleepy weepy, right?
>It's impossible to shut down all the police robots, they are only accesible physically, so they can't be hacked remotely
>Hugh Jackman does literally that
THEY LIED!!!
You guys know what's crazy? In The Dark Knight, they changed The League of Shadows from Arabians to Asians to avoid offending people, while in Iron Man, they changed Iron Man's captors from Asians to Arabians to avoid offending people (or be more modern I guess). Just something I noticed.
I'm those China dollars had nothing to do with it
@@rawrdino7046 Well I'm sure they could just say that it was a far east branch of the League of Shadows or something. But just looking at any other interpretation of Ras Al Ghul other than Nolan's should give you a hint.
Just wanna add that Ras Al Ghul was the Arabic name for the star Algol, also known as Beta Persei, so with a name like that, him being Arabic checks out
Let’s change any and everything about a film to cringingly appease randos who complain about things no one in the right mind would complain about because we desperately want everyone’s money equally and will do absolutely anything no matter how disgraceful to appear “progressive” to pseudo-intellectuals under 30 because we’re so backward I mean forward thinking and we want to be cool too so you give us your money
@@esquilax5563 Ras al Ghul is arabic for "Head of the Monster/Demon"
I just realized Mike still talks about external storage as a "zip drive", iOmega's famous portable disk drives from the 90's!
They're not called floppies? Like that game taco bell use to have as a toy?
Confirmed for Jay.
Chappie was like a big-budget student project. It was a lot emotional/angst driven themes that werent totally thought out interspersed with artisticly gratuitous violence and dark bits. Also the strong impression the actors are fresh from a theatre background.
the two gangster people were rappers by trade, not actors, so that'll be why.
Neil is just never going to be a real director, he's got like five movies under his belt and he still does everything like a complete amateur
Traffickers, now 😂
wall-e was the only robot I actually felt for.
Does Data count?
MyOnlyFarph I'm not sure. Never watched more than one or two episodes.
bubo from clash of the titans?
+Paul Thoresen Hal 9000?
avicenna Yeah, bad things. I never trusted him. I do like the kevin spacey robot in the movie "Moon".
I just rewatched Chappie on Netflix for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I still don't quite know what to make of it. It has so much going for it- a lot of the elements work, the idea is fascinating and it is pretty entertaining. I did have fun watching it, and I'll probably watch it again within the next year... but it doesn't really come together at any point. It's a situation where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
It's a good bad movie. I'll watch it like every 2 years or when a particular group of friends shows up. There's nothing in it particularly worth analyzing or studying, but it's got enough dumb charm to keep it from being boring or annoying. And it's great to pick apart all the dumb moments with a crowd.
I remember when this movie came out. It was around then that I was getting really excited about Mike and Jay finally fixing Mr Plinketts VCR, what a disappointment every single thing in the world turned out being
Anyone watching cause Neil Blompkamp just said he wants to come on the show and talk about Chappie?
I think this movie's point was that it was a rebuttal of that whole "AI is going to destroy the world" schtick you see in every other AI movie, it essentially goes "well, humans are already doing a pretty bang up job with that".
The ending scene is just saying that no, humans aren't this magnificent unreproducible miracles, let's just get robo-bodies and let's all be robocop.
So it's basically pro-AI and pro-transhumanism.
Awesome: a nihilistic, misanthropic movie for the whole family :)
Also, mankind is terrible and should all be robots...but as long as you've still got money you don't mind giving a little to the humans who made this garbage movie, right?
+broodrunsclear I take it you didn't enjoy Westworld?
Dope The original or the series?
Either.
Dope The original is enjoyable. The series is another dismal, convoluted mess :/
The whole thing with Jackman & the Ed209 thing never made sense to me. Why would you think a policeforce wants a giant robot with gatling guns and rocket launchers? Doesn't the police usually work in a city, with houses and streets and lots of crowded spaces? Why isn't he selling this thing to the military which would probably want a walking battle-tank?
It's shit commentary. That's what it is.
Doperwtje because walking battle tanks are worthless let's raise the profile and center of gravity of a tank...
Flat-Tanks are the future
Because, the movie sucks.
Because a Tank: a fast, relatively maneuverable low profile vehicle with a low center of gravity is better suited to combat than a slow cumbersome building sized machine that can't take cover behind most terrain and has the potential to topple over?
If walkers were the best way to do it we would be using them right now. They just look way cool.
[whispering to Mike and Jay watching Chappie when Chappie first appears on screen] That's Chappie
Can't wait until robots are better than humans at making movies.
They did try. They called it the Star Wars prequels. Here's some actual program code from it:
//scene:two people talking on a couch
//shot
//reverse shot
//shot
//reverse shot
//shot
//reverse shot
//end scene
Whoa, dude, you're so edgy.
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***** Screw Hollywood then, Bollywood is exactly the same but with humans, right?
***** I thought robots were already making these movies?
Say what you will about Neill Blomkamp, at least he's honest when he feels he made a bad film. He literally said "I feel like I fucked it up" in regards to Elysium. How many directors or writers are ever that honest? Lookin' at you Lucas, Shymalan, Bay, Boll, Paul W.S. Anderson, Roberto Orci....
+Neal X Bay once sayed that he fucked up ... For Transformers 2, I think.
+Neal X
Admitting you're shit doesn't mean you're forgiven for making absolute garbage.
+Dann Benn well he should. Transformers 2 was horrible.
+Dann Benn Without context I'll just assume he meant it didn't rake in enough cocaine money or something. I don't think Bay has had self-aware moment in the last 20 years.
Dávid B Great point man :)
Even if I didn't like anything else about the movie, Chappie's voice always gets me, it's strong.
For a guy who said he didn't want to make a District 9 sequel because he wanted to work on new original ideas I find it odd that he just decided to basically make the same movie again twice, Elysium then Chappie, and then go on to work on an existing sci-fi property...
I can't wait to see Sharlto Copley play a down and out Xenomorph living in the slums of South Africa dealing with the social injustice of being a slave for the white Colonial Marines who are mean to him because of class inequalities and stuff :)
its all the same universe. tetravaal was the company that was researching alien technology from district 9, the ai in chappie is used to build elysium.
@@somerandominternetweirdo9962 which TOTALLY excuses all three movies feeling like worse derivatives of the same plot and effects with no meaningful improvements and many problems added each repitition
I always actually wondered why you guys never talked about women in a sexual way. Congrats on coming out to your fans RLM!
Nicolas Tyler Doyle The dating app said they were gay,
Grindr is Tinder for dudes looking for dudes
yea. who cares either way. The reviews are dope
Malakhi Reynolds
I'm pretty sure if Jay is dude then other gay dudes care cuz he's pretty cute!
I think that was a joke
"Destroy that robot. Burn it to ash!"
Huh?
Burn this screenplay a new draft.
***** That's so far fetched that it might actually be the answer.
As opposed to burning it to water? lol.
Gaming with Mikey! Chappie is metal... don't get no ash when you burn that... "lol"
Tomanista You'd get molten slag. I found this video which appears to produce ash from metal: czcams.com/video/G6X_8Ob9XPU/video.html
I think Chappie should have been a short TV Series. Could have explored the themes more and not rushed through them.
Me and a buddy were going to watch this movie. We instead decided on The Kingsman. That decision was glorious.
I decided to watch Kingsman 2 instead of Blade Runner 2049.
I decided to watch Kingsman 2 instead of my son's birth
I decided to _die_
I love Chappie (the character) and the idea was great imo.
Only through the elimination of adverts in the middle of videos can we achieve world peace!
if youre a disgusting mole rat like me, you'd use adblock
Schwiggity, your abilities know no bounds... and I commend your smarts, but I'm too old and too tired to be learning about new-fangled things like adblock, homosexual haircuts and snapchat. I just wish CZcams would use half of their tiny minds sometimes...
hehe
How is a browser extension "MIT level computing knowledge"?
Maybe google search is enough to watch porn for you. But I assure you, you can use it to find wonderful things.
Until then, get used to having ads all over the place.
3:39 A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR
METAL GEAR?!
Hllspwn METAL GEAR!? SnAaaaaaaaaaaake!
The design of Chappie immediately made me think of Apple Seed. This whole movie seems like an amalgamation of Robo Cop, Short Circuit and the works of Shirow Masamune. Odd because the Ghost in the Shell live action movie was recently announced.
Really? Because it immediately reminded me of that other robot movie that Hugh Jackman acted/sucked in. You know, that bad one? With the robot?
Oh yeah, haha, I'd totally forgotten about that one.
Real Steel
And Johnny Appleseed's real last name was Chapman. And Jack, as in Jackman, can also be John. Bigger conspiracy theories have been built on less.
Patlabor was what I landed on but he definitely looks like the archetypical 80s mecha.
edit: and yeah Huge Ackman would be the last person I'd put in a robot movie at this point.
Is that Die Antwoord?
Yes
Of course ;)
Tony Midyett her* first of all, and it's pronounced roughly like "Dee Ahnt-voord", not "Die Aunt Ward". If you already knew this and are just trying to make a joke, I r8 your b8 0/10.
Tony Midyett Much edgy.
So hip.
Very teenage.
Wow.
zef so fresh
I didn't think the film was all that bad, to be honest. I like Neill Blomkamp's visual style, I like how he usually has a pretty dystopian look at the near-future. Chappie is nowhere near as good as District 9, and neither was Elysium.
I think Blomkamp's strength is establishing a world that feels grounded and intriguing, and thereby saying: "What would my story look like if this was the world's current state?", as his films are always very ambitious, but with Elysium and now Chappie, the potential of the story was never fully reached. I would advice him teaming up with a new and better writer, as that would make his films way better.
i was waiting all episide for the "los locos" scene from short circuit 2 and by golly they delivered! thanks for that!
Neil Blomkamp, the new Shyamalan.
NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! GOD NO. the Sham Hammer has cracked out utter crap since Signs, which was over 10 years ago. Neil has some great potential and just needs creative restraint. Blomkamp has to abide by the canon of the first two Alien films and by what the studio says. Sometimes I think most of the RLM fanbase just likes to bash everything to be just like Jay and Mike
Blomkamp wasn't even THAT good to begin with. District 9 is cool, but nothing much.
+Michael Martinez Now that's just harsh, Shyamalan at least made 3 mostly well-received movie's and a divisive flick before going off the deep end (and a few months after this came out had a minor comeback with The Visit). Blomkamp only made one great film, then a greatly polarizing flick, and now a dookie.
I don't know about Shyamalan's other movies, but I'll take District 9 over the Sixth Sense any day of the week.
maikeru01 Unbreakable.
The whole time i watched this video I 100% thought they were talking about the other Hugh Jackman robot movie Real Steel. Smh no wonder I was so confused
I'm so happy i am not the only one who broke out laughing during the whole NO MORE Violence's Scene.
The opening with the Grindr bit and Plinkett nearly falling out of the sky was hilarious haha
I find it hard to believe, by the end of GITS (1995), that you see the Puppet Master as just a robot, I can see like Hal and even Chappie and stuff because of the presentation being perceived that way but yeah if you want an A.I. that you can fully empathize with then watch Ghost in the Shell
I think the most interesting thing about the film the idea of an AI which imprints on undesirable people. The consciousness transfer, the human controlled robot, the ridiculous climax of the film and the bad taste ending unravelled and devalued that interesting idea totally.
16:40
"I'm not human." Mike's CHAPPiE voice is perfect.
these men are pawns
Ishtar....
prawns?
Michael Martinez goongas
I can't believe these men may control the fate of the Middle East =/
Michael Martinez FOOKIN' PRAWNS!
"every movie has great special effects but nobody makes a movie any more."
Now in a post Covid world, movies aren’t shot anymore with multiple people physically present in a scene. Great stuff
This movie is your typical sci fi action movie, but it's entertaining and funny in parts. Even though it has some faults, it's still funny and entertaining.
It's very interesting seeing this in 2023 where now Mike is the cyinical dork and Jay is more optimistic but in this it's like the polar opposite. Even the hack frauds can change
"He's a bad guy, because he goes to church." XD
I think Jay and Mike are reaching that age when they realize all movies are just rehashed crap that's been done before.
The good news is in ten years they'll stop giving a shit and enjoy them anyway.
Unless they suck syphilitic dog dick like this pile of shit
And here we are 😅. Only now they also talk about good films that don’t get attention
Makes me feel bad for all the people really excited about this movie, I haven't seen District 9 or Elysium but it's sad to hear that a director who's done one great film has failed to live up to it with his next two projects. :/
The problems is Elysium is not a great film. He made a good film in District 9 and has been coasting on it for years now :|
Well, I'm a big District 9 fan. I can't speak for everyone else, but Elysium already smashed my hopes for Neil Blomkamp. And Elysium seemed like it might be good, like it might at least be a decent action movie with some fun space stuff. But when I saw the trailer for Chappie, I absolutely had no hopes for the movie already. No.
I'm really hoping he redeems himself with the new Alien film. It'd be awesome to see that happen too, it's a bigger risk and bigger challenge to take on that property. Honestly if it isn't good, he'll just be done. I'm still optimistic, but this is his last chance. Also, District 9 is a modern classic and is one of the best movies of recent times. If he redeems himself with Alien, District 10 might happen!
pretorious700
The weird thing is that they originally wanted to cast Eminem as the lead in Elysium, but Eminem insisted that the movie be set in an even more run down future Detroit so thy turned him down. Having seen how Elysium turned out, putting Eminem in it and using Detroit as the background with all the connotations of late 20th century American labor/industrial failure it brings with it would probably have fixed the film.
Meh, District 9 wasn't "great". It's much better than the average blockbuster, which is why it's so hyped. (Like Nolan's Batman movies. Yeah, I said it.) But not great.
Thanks for the birthday gift Red Letter Media!
haha i'm so happy you included the short circuit 2 scene LOS LOCOS!
At first i was like "Wow! Die Antwort is in the intro to this!?" And then it just kept going on...
Rich Evans, you are a national treasure my friend......
We can break into him to steal the declaration of independence
its nice to finally see a half in the bag episode thats actually timely for once.
Right, so Chappie spends a lot of time on the internet but somehow doesn't find out that stabbing hurts people.
Giovanni Foulmouth Chappie should have watched The Fifth Element.
Chappie was parental locked out of Worldstar
16:30 this scene is actually set up much better than they tell it. in an earlier scene when chappie and the gang robbed some guys you see chappie stealing a lot of playstation 3's. he then is hooking them all up to utilize the gpus for neural network calculations to find out about consciousness. later he says "i figured out consciousness" which leads him to later transfer the consciousness of the person into a robot. of course thats not how it would work....even if on those whimsical gpus he would have made a neural network that acts like consciousness he would have to replicate the entire neural network of the brain perfectly. This is one of the rare occasions i disagree with you guys. I only reluctantly watched this movie but in the end I gave mental standing ovations. especially how effortlessly blomkamp creates this world, like its really there and he just has to film it. Lots of the AI stuff in this movie actually makes sense. what didnt make sense is the character of sigourney weaver, but i guess it adds to the fairy tale part of the story, just as jackman does. the CGI on chappie was contraire to their opinion outstanding. this was one of the first movies that used ACES colorspace which leads to a much more realistic integration of cgi and reality. I consider this movie a high tech anti fairy tale
Chappie 'found out about consciousness' by googling it so it all makes sense that a robot that doesn't know how knives work can swap a human consciousness into a robot body
and the CGI looked like zero-gravity dogshit, get off Neil's cock
While I agree with most of the issues you guys raise I still very much enjoyed the movie. People should definitely go see it.
lol good one m8
I was just hoping you guys would review this. Nice!
Watching this while eating cheap popcorn and drinking a 40 out of a plastic bottle.
The authentic Half in the Bag experience.
Fuckin' love Chappie. Fuckin' love Blomkamp movies (except Elysium). Fuckin' love Half in the Bag because they have their own opinions and I can respect them. My only concern is that people let reviews cloud their judgement before forming their own opinion. Make up your own minds, friends, don't let people tell you what is good and what is shit.
Paul K The thing is that though opinions are subjective, the technicalities those are based on are very much objective. This movie technically failed to develop any of the characters besides Chappie, and most people realize that. You can have a personal opinion that disagrees with the norm, but realize it's not going to be popular because you're getting over technical failures that most people realize.
I would argue that the protagonists learned how not to raise a kid. While the character development is lacking, this movie stars a South African rap duo raising a child-like robot directed by a guy who makes scifi action movies with sick visuals. In this context, I find it very easy to forgive the poor character development. I think more people should think outside the established rules of narrative storytelling, lighten up a bit, and learn a thing or two about the context of the film. Who directed it? What kinds of movies do they like making? Why did these make these stylistic choices? I feel like those are all good questions to ask yourself, before assuming what you're seeing is objectively wrong. If it doesn't vibe with your preference, you're not wrong. But, that doesn't mean the director was wrong for making the movie they wanted to make.
I saw the movie on Friday and wasn't a fan. There is a good movie in there somewhere. It was just very poorly executed.
I LOVED Chappie
lol opinions
You are all funny. I like this show. My greetings from Japan. By the way, "Chappie" will start playing at theatres in Japan on May 23.
Chappie was one of the best movies that I had ever seen
If you are or know some one who was manipulated by their parents as a child, you know exactly the social commentary the movie is going for. I liked the message and the tone so much that I didn't realize how often I was saying "that's stupid, that makes no sense".
Then you're blinded by concept over substance. your argument is essentially still saying the movies fucking stupid and bad.
I liked Chappie, call me a hack fraud now
And Brian Jensen was never heard from again.
BrutalFuzzball
Wow dude, do you put THAT much of yourself into youtube arguments that you return months later to try and goad someone into continuing the argument?
It felt like an interesting attempt at a new Short Circuit and was cute at times
I considered rewatching Chappie to see if it's a grower but I realized that would be like making someone take a shit in my yard at gun point and hoping an apple tree grows out of it in the off chance that a: there's a seed there in the first place and b: it successfully fertilizes.
I was waiting the entire episode for the "Los(las?) Locos" scene from Short Circuit 2 to be played. Was not disappointed.
Thank you for that Grindr joke. You honor my people.
"His next film is Alein 5"
If only...
If only.
Half in the bag is awesome but We need more Mr. Pickett reviews
When Hugh Jackman puts the gun to whats his faces head and everyone in the office is like wtf, but then he just says im joking and no one does anything i shut it off and had a hearty chuckle, that was unintentional comedy.
Half in the Bag, maybe the best thing on CZcams.
I personally really enjoyed CHAPPiE. I'm really sick of sci-fi movies trying to be completely realistic and down to earth and so having all the crazy ghost in the machine stuff was really fun to me. I liked the characters and how cartoony a lot of the stuff was. I think any movie where a human soul is put in a flash drive isn't trying to be 100% serious. It did remind me more of the high concept sci-fi films of the 90s which happens to be my favorite genre.
Duplexide yeah this whole movie is like a live action carton lol. BUT, what if I told you this movie was actually trying to be serious. What if...?
That doesn't change the fact that I enjoy what it is. I have no way of telling what the intentions were but I don't think they'd recruit Die Antwoord and have a scene of Dion asking his Omnibot for a redbull if they were going for stark realism. Not to mention everything is really stylized and brightly colored. If they were going for stark realism then they failed, but if they were going for a live action Otomo anime then they succeeded.
Chappie extracts human souls on flash drives using a stack of playstations for fucks sake. I REALLY don't think they were going for the gritty realism they did with District 9.
ed-209 is connected to wolverine via cerebro
Chappie 2: Chappie Chaplain Goes To Church.
at 20:40 it really sounds like Chappie is saying, "YOU ATE MY PIZZA!"
whenever I hear "Hugh Jackman" it sounds like huge ass man
Huge Jacked Man.
this is so nostalgic
Chappie was a potentially great film that needed script and casting changes to turn despicable main characters more sympathetic. The rest is brilliant, lost in the muddle. Watch it and see what you think.
RedLetterMedia's Up.
Chappie was fine until the moment the "soul transfer" plot happened.
A machine learning about mortality would've been a much better story, even if it's overdone.
they did the soul transfer thing in star trek tng with data.
Wow... how do you... Mike you made me laugh so hard. I hate movies... youre a gift to mankind. Jay youre a gift to Mike. I love this show.
The concept of this movie seemed like it had a ton of potential, I was really looking forward to exploring the idea of ai and rogue ai and stuff, what I got was some thugs teach a robot to be a thug, which was just stupid. The entire premise of the movie made me depressed, not because it was a depressing movie, but because there is so much wasted potential.
This movie sounds like the pet project of some guy whose childhood was defined by being babysat by Short Circuit 2 on repeat.
After watching this, I hope you guys might review Ex Machina.
Kevin Bacon's overnight creation of code for invisibility while binging on twinkies in Hollow Man was not as laughably bad as Dev Patel's Red Bull fueled creation of sentient AI in Chappie. This film was tonally all over the place. It's a shame, too. I genuinely enjoyed District 9.
I had literally not heard of or seen anything about this movie before watching this Half in the Bag.
Is it strange that I typed "hack frauds" in the search bar and it brought me to red letters media?
Complete forgot Hugh Jackman was in this. Thought they were doing a Real Steel joke.
Absolutely solid Flintstones reference. 👍 22:48
I really wish Mike and Jay could enjoy video games, because there's so many games that tell AMAZING stories that are, in many ways, way better than movies now.
One of my favorites, that deals with similar themes to this, in a much better, and horrifying way, is SOMA. I'd love to hear their opinion on that game.
I actually liked this movie, it's a cool action movie.
I bet you say that about a lot of movies. "It's cool." And then your brain shuts off because you're not here to think about things.
1:30 setting up the gay marriage plot year in advance, genius
The chappie robots remind me of Patlabor anime robots. The dog/rabbit ears to show their feelings and make em cute
I hate how hollywood keeps falsely advertising their movies. The trailer for Chappie tells a completely different and more interesting story than what the movie it was advertising.
I wonder if I should pull a Blomkamp and upload my concept art for my Starman remake (starring Gosling reprising his emotion-impaired alien character from Drive) to Instagram.
If fan reactions are good the studio will greenlight it. "I'm not working on this. Oh I'm actually working on it now i guess!"
I often agree with what these guys say, but I liked CHAPPiE. I think the blend of the naive baby with extreme violence works well because of the juxtaposition. It got a bit overblown, and was probably drawing on Robocop too much, but the world and the characters were effective.
The problem with RLM in this review is that they couldn't watch the movie without comparing it to other stuff. It has nothing to do with Robocop aside from having a robot cop.
Chappie was written by blomkamp and his wife. A collaboration.
0:46 lel good to see you finally take a shot at the '12 year' memers
These men are prawns
I thought it was good; I read it as being more about Chappie growing up and becoming his own person.
I'm also a sucker for "can robots be alive" stories and Neill Blomkamp's visual style, though
I think the original script was going to focus even more on that but apparently Ninja from Die Antwort wanted more screen time
Apparently entering the atmosphere has given Jay perfectly groomed hair.
consiousness in this movie is like teleportation in real life. You can't teleport someone but you can clone them at the exit and incinerate the original.
I thought it was weird that the South African rap group Die Antwoord were the stars of this movie. It seemed like Neil wanted to make a movie with them so bad to show off their talents, that he even included their art style (the dicks everywhere are part of that) in the movie. It added an interesting aspect to the movie in my opinion, and surprisingly they were decent enough actors compared to a lot of people who are in their first film.
They seem like performance artists more than musicians, the performance just so happens to be music most of the time. In other words they are likely really fucking annoying people, but get pure ketamine.